Linux password server?

[Stephen Shaw]

On 5/23/07, Kenneth Burgener <kenneth at mail1.ttak.org> wrote:
>
> Maybe someone could point me in the right direction.  I have several
> Linux servers, and maintaining users and passwords  individually across
> all of them is getting to be painful.  So I am hoping to find a "Linux
> password server" option that I can manage all users and passwords from.
> Google didn't appear to be much help, and kept pointing me to using
> Samba (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linux+password+server).  I
> have heard there are several security issues with the Windows
> authentication, and it seems overkill to use a Windows based
> authentication scheme in a pure Linux environment.  Is there a simple,
> secure and lightweight Linux way of doing this (and by lightweight I
> mean staying away from LDAP overkill as well).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> If it helps, all of the servers are running Fedora Core 5 (64bit).
>
> Thanks,
> Kenneth
>
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WARNING - to some this might appear as an evil suggestion

Not free, but there is always Novell's Identity Manager.  Works really well
for managing and syncing all kinds of things.  From Linux servers to netware
to windows to VoIP phones to whatever you write a driver for.  All of its
conditional based etc...  I attended a boot camp for it and was impressed.
All of it runs on Linux just fine.

Just a thought...  not professing a religion here or anything.

Stephen

PS. Let the flame wars begin